Carroll Van West

Carroll Van West was born in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. He graduated from Middle Tennessee State University, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1977.[1] He earned a master's degree from the University of Tennessee in 1978 and a PhD from the College of William and Mary in 1982.[1]

Van West is a professor of history at his alma mater, Middle Tennessee State University,[1] where he is also the director of the MTSU Center for Historic Preservation.[2] He is the author or editor of several books about Montana and Tennessee.

Van West succeeded Walter Durham as the Tennessee State Historian in July 2013.[3]

• Van West, Carroll (1986). Traveler's Companion to Montana History. Helena, Montana: Montana Historical Society Press. ISBN 9780917298127. OCLC 906469480.
• Van West, Carroll (1993). Capitalism on the Frontier Billings and the Yellowstone Valley in the Nineteenth Century. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 9780803247550.
• Van West, Carroll (2001). Tennessee's New Deal Landscape: A Guidebook. Knoxville, Tennessee: University of Tennessee Press. ISBN 9781572331082. OCLC 800341968.
• Van West, Carroll, ed. (2002). Trial and Triumph: Essays in Tennessee's African American History. Knoxville, Tennessee: University of Tennessee Press. ISBN 9781572332041. OCLC 606909077.
• Van West, Carroll, ed. (2004). A History of Tennessee Arts: Creating Traditions, Expanding Horizons. Knoxville, Tennessee: University of Tennessee Press. ISBN 9781572332393. OCLC 52377497.
• Van West, Carroll (2015). Nashville Architecture: A Guide to the City. Knoxville, Tennessee: University of Tennessee Press. ISBN 9781572339200. OCLC 903363549.